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Pwllheli Golf Club, South Beach Course, Pwllheli. (1890s)
The Pwllheli South Beach Golf Club was instituted on June 26th 1891.
The current Pwllheli Golf Club was founded in 1900.
Reports on the new course in July 1891.
Aberystwyth Observer Thursday 2 July 1891. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
"Golf" Friday 31 July 1891. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Follow up report from "Golf" in August 1891.
"Golf" Friday 7 August 1891. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The following information is from the Golfing Annual Vol. V – 1891-92:-
Annual subscription – Five and Ten shillings; President, Edward Jones; Captain, C T Denstone-Edwards; Treasurer, R Jones-Roberts; Committee – O Lewis-Edwards (Chairman,) Moses J G Jones, W Maurice Jones, R Roberts, E R Davies, T J Davies, C J Dale, G Pugh Jones; Secretaries – Maurice Jones, 18 Salem Terrace, and A Ivor-Parry, Llys Ivor, Pwllheli; Green-keeper, Enoch Ellis; Green – South Beach.
Pwllheli, North Wales, is a seaside resort, in a most lovely spot on the shores of Cardigan Bay. It is a borough town of some 4,000 inhabitants and is fast developing into one of the most fashionable summer and health resorts on the coats. The bay in front of the new parade at the south beach is one of the best adapted for boating and bathing in the United Kingdom. There is also a magnificent natural harbour, formed between two embankments, a harbour which, with the expenditure of a small outlay of capital, will become a first rate camping ground for yachts, steam-launches and pleasure boats. Between the harbour and the sea there is a sandy common on which the course has been laid. The circumference is about three miles and it contains nine-holes, about 200 or 250 yards apart.
The Ordnance Survey Map below shows the area around South Beach in the early 1900s. Unfortunately the earlier Pwllheli course had been deserted by this time.
© Crown Copyright {1901}
The Google Map Below shows the South Beach area.